Mumtaz Sorcar (born 15 September 1986) is an Indian actress and model. She is the daughter of the famous magician PC Sorcar Junior and Joysri Sorcar. Mumtaz started her career with a music video for singer Mehreen from

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. She first appeared in the Bengali film ''

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'' directed by Birsa Dasgupta.

Education and activities

Her schooling was from Modern High School for Girls,

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. She completed her BA.LLB from South Calcutta Law College under

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. Her hobby is playing sports and as an athlete, she was trained in

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at a South Kolkata Club under the auspices of the Bengal Amateur Boxing Federation. She also underwent training in

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and is a YMCA gold medalist in shot put. Mumtaz is also a classical

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Career

Her debut film was ''

'', which was directed by Birsha Dasgupta. She appeared in Shoumik Sen's ''No Poblem'' in the initial days of her film career.She signed many Tollywood films thereafter and The film is currently in post-production and is set to be released in 2012.

2010

She got a role in the Bengali film ''Musalmanir Galpo (The Story of the

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Girl)''. She played a beautiful

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girl, "Kamala", who was abducted by the notorious dacoit "Madhumallar" in the film. The film is based on the last story

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wrote.

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was one of her co-stars. Then, she followed up with ''033'', which was a joint venture between Moxie Group and

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. It was a film about a group of youngsters who form a bangla band and named it after the city's STD code (033). She played "Ria". The music in the film was scored by

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. Her co-stars in the film included

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Parambrata Chatterjee Parambrata Chattopadhyay (born 27 June 1980) is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under Sandip Ray's direction. He made his ...

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and

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2011

2011 saw her in the

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s ''Kolkatar Jongole'' and ''Rajbarir Rahasya'', based on the famous adventure series ''

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'', by

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. Future releases are in slot in the corresponding series. These

s are produced by Mahua Films.

2012

2012 started with a big hit for her, with the success of ''

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''. The portrayal of a die-hard romantic young girl "Koel" added another feather to her crown. Her co-actors included

and

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. Her next film ''Kanchenjunga Express'' is of the suspense

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. The story revolves around the character "Nandini", who works for a NGO and is married 3 times and dies under mysterious circumstances. The film is directed by Arnab Ghosh and was scheduled to be released mid June '12.

2013

She has also appeared in the film ''Atmogopan'', by Somnath Sen. Mumtaz plays the character "Anu", Subhash Chatterjee essays her father.

2016

Mumtaz played the role of Payal Mukherjee appeared in the film '' Dark Chocolate''. Mumtaz had her Tamil debut in the movie,

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where she played the role of Lakshmi(Luz), a young female boxer. Her co-star were

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and

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. She made her Bollywood debut in the same role for same movie in the Hindi version named ''

Saala Khadoos ''Irudhi Suttru'' () is a 2016 Indian sports drama film written and directed by Sudha Kongara. Filmed simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi, with the latter being titled as ''Saala Khadoos'' (), the film stars R. Madhavan as boxing coach who is ign ...

''.

2020

In the upcoming Tamil movie C/O Kaadhal, Mumtaz is playing the role of a Muslim girl Salima, where the film shows that love has no age and one can fall in love anytime if they meet the right person. She also appeared on the TV series Charitraheen and web series thriller Shobdo Jobdo streaming on

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Filmography

Films

Web Series

References

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